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The Farmville Enterprise i t ? Look At Your Label ? If Youi + j ? ? I + Subscription Has Expired Send | t In YOUR Renewal at Once ! + ? + <; Patronize Our Advertisers, For ? o They Are Constantly Inviting * ;; You To Trade With Them. | VOL. TWENTY-SIX FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936 N'UNBES TWENTY SEASON RECORD SET BY MARKET; TOP PRICES BEING REALIZED HERE ?QMW.1 Farmviile Sells 556,798 Pounds for $127,998.36 Monday ? Season Average for All Offerings Is $22.40 With the heaviest sale of the current season reported on Monday, the Farmviile tobacco market set a record for 1936 of $127,998.36 paid out to growers for 556,798 pounds of golden weed, sold on the floors of the local warehouses, at an average of $22.99. The volume of sales was not so great on either of the three succeeding days but reports state that a heavy sale is again un derway today, Friday, and that prices are some stronger than on Thursday. Tobacco growers, among whom are an increasing number of new customers -selling" on the Farmviile market this season, L rni ' -1 1 tV? - * 1 M mm f f mm } am | M 1 { T m tnrougu xaursuajr u<?u , ... 392 pounds, for which they have re- ? ceived $932,538.44 at an average of j $22.40 per hundredweight. Farmville warehousemen are as sisting customers of this market in advising what types of tobacco are selling best, and of the proper meth ods of handling to receive the best re turns for their offerings. Weather conditions are ideal for, the preparation of the rirst primings and farmers are being urged to get thfs type graded and bring them to Farmville, where the top market price for all grades is prevailing. tobacco report '? ( The following table shows average | prices by grades for tobacco on the Farmville Market Wednesday, and j this season through Thursday, Sept. 10. Compiled by U. S. Department j of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricul- , tural Economics. Averages based on 20 or more lots of each grade: Grade Sept 15 Season ORANGE LEAF? B2F $36.70 $36.10 ' B3F 30.60 29.50 ' B4F 21.00 21.00 . B5F 11.70 11.40 ' B6F 5.20 6.10 ORANGE SMOKING LEAF? HlF 36.60 H2F 36.70 36.20 ' H3F 31.00 30.2011 H4F 23.40 22.60 H5F 12.60 12.70 H6F 6.SO 7.30 ORANGE CUTTERS? 03 F 39.10 3S.70 C4F 36.70 36.70 C5F 33.40 36.20 ORANGE LUGS?_ XlF J" 35.10 34.70 X2F ? . 2A40 30.10 X3F 1 .__?.20.10 20.301 X4F : 11.30 11.401 X5? 5.S0 6.10 ORANGE PRIMING LUGS? PlF ? 32.60 34.10 P2F 27.00 28.40 P3F 18.30 P4F 9.50 10.T0 P5F 5.50 5.70 NONDESCRIPT NIL 2.20 2.00! NIX 3.10 N2G 1.70 2.00 Comments?Sales continued heavy. Offerinp-s contained increased vol ? o ? - - ume leaf and decreased volume lugs and primings. Third to fifth quality j leaf predominated with good volume second qualities included. Markets firm generally. To Advise Growers | on Fall Problems The coming of fall and winter brings before the farm people of North Carolina new problems and new tasks. How to prepare for and meet these things will be described by State Col lege specialists during the next few months on the Carolina Farm Fea tures program. For instance, the poultryman finds one of his chief worries during the winter is keeping up egg production. Careful management and feeding practices will keep the production of eggs up to the highest possible level. Slipshod methods result in few eggs and devitalized poultry. Another important task of the farmer is the planning of fall cover crops. These winter legumes and small grains aid in controlling ero sion, supplying pasture for farm an imals, and in preventing the leaching out of plant food from the soil. The farm wife also finds a multi tude of new farm tasks confronting her at the beginning of fall. Prob ably the most important is that of getting the children ready for school. Clothing has to be made and pur chased and the daily school lunches [ provided. 3 a strange "con. 0?*e City, Kan.?Poking his head undefrthe hood oi an auto to check the ffi, Andy Anderson, filling sta tion Attendant, noticed a strange eaB-g six-foot make. Wafi, who be injured by an au tomobile in tiUa county before our County Board Orders Drive I Instructs Tax Supervis-I or Go After Delin quent Listers ____ i I The Pitt County Board of Com missioners have instructed the tax supervisor to put into effect a cam paign to place on the tax books all property not listed and all delin quent polls and to assess in all ?ases the minimum penalties for fail ure to list. The law ordered enforced by the joard provides for a penalty of 10 oer cent with a minimum of two dol ars. for all delinquents. Under the aw a person who has not listed even 'or poll taxes will be required to pay .'our dollars instead of the customary :wo dollars poll tax. A delinquent who owes $200 would be taxed with a $20 penalty and so on. The tax supervisor was further instructed to make use of all avail able sources of information in carry ing out the order and "to comply fully with the statute in all cases where he may be unable to have such property or polls properly listed." It was understood, however, the tax supervisor was going to recom mend to the commissioners that in J a case where the delinquent showed the proper cooperation and volun tarily came in to list, be given some consideration and the penalty be reduced to a nominal sum. The sug gestion has not beer, made yet, how ever, and it was not known whether the board would accept the sugges tion. Another duty the tax supervisor was instructed to proceed with was the checking of automobile license records. His order regarding this action reads: "Since quite a few per sons own cars which have been listed for taxes in names other than the license holder, this department urges that in such instances it be advised by the parties affected." Stanley says that United States plans two new battleships. Weed Groups Are Planned State Committees to Be Formed to Guide Leg islative Course Raleigh, Sept. 16.?A State Tobacco committee to guide legislation through the General Assembly will be set up in North Carolina along with those in other weed growing States, it was de cided at a meeting of representatives of the nine State in Washington on Tuesday. The representatives indorsed State compact legislation similar to the Virginia act, with the inclusion of acreage quota provisions. These com pacts are authorized under Federal legislation passed at the last session of Congress. The conference request ed J. B. Hutson, director, east central division of the Agricultural Adjust ment Administration, and his asso ciates to prepare a uniform model bill to be sent to members of the conference to be enacted in their respective States. - ??? Ktt The conference was spwisuicu u} farm bureaus of tobacco growing States, following a preliminary meet ing at Signal Mountain, Tenn. The States represented were North Caro lina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Connecticut. A uniform method was advocated for the election of a limited number I of producers by districts from w" ich the governors would appoint State tobacco commissions which wolud ad minister the act. On the motion of W. W. Eagles, North Carolina, plans were laid for setting up State tobacco committees to guide legislation in the States. These State committees will appoint members of a national tobacco steer ing committee to work at Washington and to assist individual States. It was urged by the committee that a method of controlling the sale of scrap tobacco be included in the moder State bill. Those attending the conference were W. W. Eagles, C. T. Hall, E. Y; Floyd and J. E. Winslow, North Car olina; John M. Goodman, Tennessee; Frank C. Taylor, Ben Kilgore and Boone Hill, Kentucky; J. D. Rogers, and Hoomer S. Durden, Georgia; J! V. McCall, Florida; T. B. Hill, J. S. Jones and J. H. East, Virginia; R. M. Groff and H. C. Reinhold, Pennsyl vania; A. B. Flory, Ohio; and Olcoft F. King, Connecticut. Thomas Edison, asked to advise youth, replied: "Youth does not take advice." This is the tragedy of life ?that young people must be burned to learn the truth of an old man's ex perience with fire. I One Chicken That j Came Home to Roost ? Matt Duke, of Greenville, member of the Duke's Mixture clan, now has a service station on Dickinson Ave nue, but a few years ago he was a grocer. He's a person exceptionally respected because he works for a living, and his geniality, in the pres ence of constant affliction, is superb. An unusual circumstance occurred to* Mr. Duke this week?a rare happen ing, but true? He received a letter from Mary Magdalene?accompanied by a mon ey-order for $1.20. It was like this? Father Devine, an ecclesiastical habitat of Harlem?a short, chiinky, bald-headed Negro evangelist?en dowed with a divine gift of oratory and apparent loyalty to his faith, to gether with the gift of making folks see and believe his holy messages; who has risen to the heights and highlights of front pages and fame through his thousands of conversions and the many deviations and vagaries of life that beset some few of his re demptions, has finally made hard shelled Matt Duke admit that Father Devine has an idea that could well be fostered by local merchants and j Chambers of Commerce. When Father Devine hands one of his converts eventual salvation, the chosen one is given the name or synomym of a Biblical character? which is presumed to be an open sesame to St, Peter, when the lucky Devine convert goes Heaven-bound? which is just a fraction of the rea son why Matt Duke received a note frbm Mary Magdalene?and we never knew until we read the mis sive that Mary's last name was De light? A decade or more ago, when Mr. m+omme Duke was in the grocery business, a Greenville colored woman, named Maggie Moore, bought a chicken from Mr. Duke?just this week, ten years later, she paid for it. A glimpse of Heaven actuated the settlement. Mr. Duke had completely forgotten the transaction until he received the note?accompanied by a money-order. Now, casually, Mr. Duke believes that Merchants Associations and Chambers of Commerce could well cease civic education in economy and adopt Father Devine's methods? which, if universally adopted, would create an insistent urge for everyone to instantly pay everybody else? and depression would soon be knock ed into a row of prolific checking ac counts. The letter, self-explanatory, of one chicken that came home to roose, be gins: "Peace"?which is the pass word to Father Devine's holy land. The letter" follows: "Peace "Mr. Duke I am writing you as I am a beleaver of Father De vine God Almighty and he is teaching us to deal Rightly with all man kind and to pay all of bille that we owe. And owe no man nothing but lo^e so that is why L am sending you this you will find^in closed $1.20 ct for a chicken"-that I bought from you at that time I was known to you as Maggie Moore but since God has come he has changed me and I am redeemed from^sin of every kind ao' my Real name is Mary Magdalene Delight now. I am send you some of Father De vine Spoken Words Papers." Sell and Buy in Farmville i (Theme Song of Farmville's Hour * On-the-Air) Come along with me, Down to your best tobacco town. , If you want to get prices fair, Don't forget to bring your next load there. Then you will be pleased, From debt you're sure to be freed, You'll walk down the street, Look at the sky and say, "What a wise old guy am I!" And if you want to save Some cash on every trade, Our stores have bargains rare, Make your purchases there. Now warehouse men and buyers tall _ Are ready to serve you, one and all, When you're down in your own Farmville town. Elbert and Sue Holmes. I I I l >| 11" ? :: :: WyOMWfeSrcw i? ? 9 t ? m. i ? > ? REORGANIZATION PLANS LANDON'S MAINE TRIP TO EXPOUND VIEWS HULL'S PLAIN SPEECH EUROPEAN DANGERS TREASURY'S FINANCING BABY BONDS SELLING REPORT ON DROUGHT PRESIDENTIAL POLLS By Hugo Sims, Washington Correspondent President Roosevelt is expected to outline his plans for governmental reorganization in one of the speeches of his reelection campaign. Already a committee on Administrative Man agement has conducted an exhaustive study of the Federal establishment and it is said that far-reaching re organization will be recommended, in volving the consolidation or abolition of some major departments and bu reaus. Until the plan is made public, the present course of the Administra tion is to curtail or dismantle emerg ency units of the "pump-priming" or "rescue" agencies. Roosevelt's sup porters say that the President has been considering a shake-up since last fall when he found that a wide | range reorganization would be neces sary to effect adequate savings. The change will require congressional ap proval and the President's course is to present the scheme to the voters so that his reelection may be con strued as a mandate from the people to make the changes. A sudden decision last week pro jected Governor Landon into Maine on the eve of the campaign, which is often taken as a political barometer in campaign years. Declaring, "I am going to Maine to participate in the first fighting repudiation at the polls of the kind of government this country has had for the last three years," the Republican nominee scheduled the Maine trip ahead of his tour of the West to begin next week. Republican leaders assert that the visit of the candidate was not due to any fear as to the result of the election on Monday, but rather to a desire to emphasize the importance of the results to the nation at large. Mr. Landon will make several ma jor speeches next week. He is ex pected to discuss his farm policies at Des Moine^, regarded as the nat ural setting for a discussion of ag ricultural and drought problems. At Milwaukee, it is expected that he will discuss social security and make more specific the position outlined in his speech accepting the nomination, in which he declared for an amend ment to make the plan workable and pledged himself to support legisla tion to have the Federal Government do its share in affording protection against involuntary unemployment and dependency in old age. At Min neapolis, the Governor is expected, by some observers, to take the opportun ity to expound his views in regard to trade treaties and perhaps, to attack the reciprocal trade pacts, particu larly the one with Canada, which is alleged.to have injured farmers and lumbermen. Whether the outline giv en above is followed by the nominee or not, it iB certain that the candi date will attempt a more detailed exposition of his position on import ant public issues. One of the significant speeches o: the recent past was the address oi Secretary Hull to the representative! of fifty nations attending the Thin World Power Conference in Wash ington. After speaking of the im portance of electrical power, the Sec retard of State bluntly warned th< delegates that the world is "torn b; dangerous ambitions and conflict; n| political philosophies," and that th fabric of peace has been worn "s (continued on page four) Greenville Rotarians Aid Orthopedic Clinic Greenville, Sept. 12.?The Pitt County Orthopedic Clinic was opened July 3rd, under the auspices of the Greenville Rotary Club, the club un derwriting the clinic to the extent of $10.00 per month, which amount is for the purpose of paying the sur geon's travel expense. The Presi dent's Ball Fund is available for crutches, braces, etc., while surgical operations and hospitalization for the indigents is taken care of through State appropriations and the Federal Social Security funds. The Pitt County Health Department cooper ates by furnishing office space, cler ical and nursing assistance, also fol low-up home visits in cases coming from Greenville and Pitt County. The clinic is conducted by Dr. Hugh A. Thompson, orthopedist, Ral eigh. "linifl in tn RPfvini? X IIC ill UUU1V1V1I W wv- ? 0 . Pitt County, also serves certain coun-1 ties east o? Pitt?Beaufort, Hyde,' Pamlico and Carteret. All persons, irrespective cf age or social condi tions, are eligible for examinations in the clinic, though only the indig ent are given free treatment. All persons must be referred by a doc tor, for it Is necessary that every pa tient be under the general care of his own physician. The clinic is held the first Friday in each month, 12 to 4 P. M. At the first clinic, July the third, there were seven patients, ranging in ages from six to 16 years. At the second clinic, August 7th, there were 14 patients present, one from as far away as Morehead City. Ages rang ed from nine months to 397 years. No meeting was held in September, on account of the orthopedist, Dr. Thompson, being on his vacation, The defects and diseases found in these patients range all the way from flat-foot, knock-knees, bow-legs, club-foot, curvature of the spine, to osteomyelitis (infection of the bone), severe athritis, dislocation of joints, non-union of fractures, spat tic hem iplegia (paralysis on one side) in a nine-year-old boy, and the need for an artificial limb in a 14-year-old white girl who, at the age of seven had her right leg amputated at the knee and since then has been getting about on an ordinary wooden peg leg. This child is on the waiting list for entrance to the State Orthopedic Hospital at Gastonia, where she will be supplied with the proper artificial limb, which will not only enable her to walk better, but will relieve much of the embarrassment now present. The crippling deformities here listed are picked at ranom from our case histories, but they serve to give you a mental picture of the type of work the Rotary Club is sponsoring for the handicapped or under-priv ilege child. ATTEND FUNERAL Cleveland M. Paylor, Jr. and John Hill Paylor left Saturday for Peters burg, Va., upon receipt of a message stating that C. M. Paylor, Sr., father of the former and brother of the later, was seriously ill. Mr. Paylor died on Monday, funeral services being held in Petersburg on Tuesday, with burial services and in terment in Laurinburg on Wednes day. The Enterprise joins other friends here in extending sympathy to the family. NOTICE P. O, BOX RENTERS! Box rent for the quarter ending December 31st, 1936, is due on or before October 1st, 1936. A card of notification of box rent due will be placed in each lock box ten days be fore October 1st, 1936, allowing rent er sufficient time to pay the rent. B. O. TURNAGE, Postmaster. Many Are Entering Farmvilte Contests , * 1 Woman's Club Sponsor ? ing Local Event In All | State Beauty Pageant On September 25 j F Applications from candidates for f the Beauty, Shirley Temple and Am 3 ateur contests, which are to be stag } ed here on Friday evening, September 26, are being received daily by Mrs. D. R. Morgan, president, and the special committee of the Woman's ? Club, which is fostering the All-State f Beauty Pageant event locally. An jr evening of splendid entertainment, e featuring the beauty and talent of o Farmville, is assured all who attend the show at the auditorium, Friday* 'V *?' v % 5 evening, at eight o'clock. Popular prices will prevail. 0 The Beauty and Amateur winners to the Ail-State contest, to be held j in Durham, Nov. 15, will go and have all expenses paid while there, and a | chance for a radio audition over any one of a number of the most out standing radio stations in the nation. A screen test is the coveted prize in the Beauty Contest for the win ner. Candidates may b$ either single or married and between the ages of 14 and 25 years. The winsome tots of F irmville are overseeing preparations being made by proud and loving mothers for their entrance in the Shirley Temple con test, the winner' of which will be crowned "Little Shirley Temple," and receive a Shirley Temple drew. FARMVILLE BUSINESS MEN SPONSOR HOUR-ON-THE-AIR, WPTF, SATURDAY ? I Program of Addresses Tell World of Farmville As a Desirable Market and a Good Place to Live in Winning praise and congratulations from many of those "listening in" Saturday morning, the Farmville program, given in response to WPTF'S salute and lasting an hour, consisted of talks relating to the community life, the tobacco market and other in dustries of Farmville, by John T. Thorne, Mayor John B. Lewis, Irvin Morgan, Jr., and to the civic and social organizations here by Mrs. J. M. Hobgood. One of these splendid and interesting talks will be published in these columns each week. Giving a pleasing variety and adding enjoyment two-fold to the program were solos, Shortnin'. Bread," and Play to Me Gypsy," by Mrs. H. H. Simons; quartet selec tions, "Vaughan Medley," "Wildwood Rose," and "My Cottage Home," by Rev. L. R. Ennis, C. F. Baucom, J. D. and E. C. Holmes; a duet, "Moon light and Roses," by the Holmes brothers, with Mrs. J. L. Shackleford as accompanist, and string band num bers by Grady's Bright Leaf Boys. The broadcast was made possible by six of Farmville's community conscious firms: R. L. Davis & Bros., the Bank of Farmville, Farmville Holmes Brothers and Co., and Turn age Co., Inc., to each of which Farm Furniture Co., A. C. Monk & Co., ville is indebted for this very con crete manner of expressing and man ifesting its pride in the devel opment of Farmville and her tobacco market, which has attained promi-1 nence throughout the tobacco world. MAYOR LEWIS TELLS THE WORLD VIA BROADCAST "Ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience, as Mayor of Farmville, North Carolina, I wish to thank those of you who are listening this morn ing. The Town of Farmville is lo cated in Pitt County, and near the counties of Greene and Wilson, being in the Coastal Plains of Eastern North Carolina, and right in the heart of the world's largest bright leaf tobacco section, and being a ver itable hub of the tobacco wheel?the spokes are roads leading to Farm ville and where the spokes join the rim are located other tobacco mark ets. The hub is the strength of the wheel. There are four tobacco ware houses in our town, selling an aggre gate of from twenty-five to thirty millions of pounds annually. The tobacco industry is further augment ed by three large re-drying plants and storage houses for all major to bacco companies. "Farmville is situated on the main line of the Norfolk-Southern Rail road from Raleigh and is terminal for the East Carolina Railroad; here also Is. found the junction of Federal Highways Nos. 264 and 258. Nov, I think you should know who made this broadcast possible. Six business houses contributed equal amounts to pay the expense of sam*. They were R. L. Davis and F. M. Davis, trading as R. L. Davis & Bros., a general mercantile store; since 1879 this store has been under the leadership and management of Mr. R. L. Davis. The Davis Brothers are recognized as one of the most influential firms in the commercial and agricultural life of Eastern Carolina. "The Bank of Farmville, founded in 1904 by Mr. R. L. Davis, who re mained as president until* his retire ment last year, has at all times en joyed the confidence of the people in its community. This bank has ample liquid assets and resources to meet your every banking need. Its present capable staff of officers include: A. C. Monk, president; J. I. Morgan, vice-president; D. E. Oglesby, cash ier; J. M. Standi and J. L. Walker, assistant cashiers. They say: "Sell your tobacco in Farmville and bank with us." "A. C. Monk and Company, headed by A. C. Monk, one of the largest in dependent leaf tobacco dealers in North Carolina, is amply provided with storage and factory space to handle large quantities of tobacco daily. The Monk factory is modern and up-to-date from the standpoint of machinery and office equipment. A trip through this factory would prove immensely interesting to to bacco growers, all of whom are cor dially invited to visit it on your next trip to Farmville." "A flash from another sponsor of this program, Holmes Bros. & Co., distributors of John Deere farm ma chinery and Bemis Transplanters, for Pitt, Wilson and Greene counties: "Quality is the first consideration in the manufacturing of John Deere farm machinery, with no regard for cost; yet due to a tremendous vol ume of sales we are able to offer John Deere machinery at very at tractive prices, for instance, John Deere No. 1 Mowing Machine, $6'J.50. "After October 1st, on the floor of our new warehouse and display building you will find a complete line of farm tractors, both horse and power driven equipment. We are ready to demonstrate on your farm at your convenience. "We also make loans to farmers on crop production. Pay us a visit?a welcome awaits you." "The Farmville Furniture Company for 25 years the leading furniture dealer in this section, has on display at all times a large supply of new and up-to-date furniture, including Philco Radios, oil burning and elec tric ? refrigerators and heaters." Ad joining their store they have recent ly erected a new and modern Funeral Home, complete in every detail, in order that they might more efficient ly serve the public. "PI,* Tnunor monofroy* on?onn/?fio wwjiiv-ij iuajia^v.1 , cuiJiuuiK^o the inauguration of their annual trade and pay-up campaign, at the close of which they will give away an automobile, the tenth car so giv en?and this year one of those other valuable prizes will be a week's trip to Florida with all expenses paid? Eli says trade with the Farmville Furniture Company?you may win the car and take someone on a trip to Florida. "The Turnage Company, Inc., gen eral merchants for hardware, farm implements, groceries and dry goods, announces its second annual sale campaign, to close on Christmas Eve with a new Chevrolet coach and other valuable prizes being given to its patrons drawing the lucky tickets. Two tickets will be given for each dollar paid on account or used for cash purchases prior to Octoger 17th and one ticket thereafter. T. C. Turnage, a veteran merchant of 25 years, is president and manager of this company. "I feel sure that each one listening, when you have heard the rest of this program will join with me in our ap preciation to these merchants for making this broadcast possible. To a man they want you to sell your to bacco in Farmville and trade with them?at least give them a chance to show their wares. "Perhaps you would like to know what the Town of Farmville is like? why it is ambitious enough to put on a radio program?what it has to say for itself. I "In the first place it is and hal al ways been financially sound. Its peak indebtedness of $356,000.00 in 1920 was reduced to $61,000.00 on April 1st, this year, without default in principal or interest at any time. The Tax Collector, R. A. Joynei, really collects the taxes, and, of course, he has had splendid cooper ation from the taxpayers. '< \ "Farmville owns its water and light plant, from whicl^' the town of Farmville is benefitted by a sizeable payroll and good annual returns on its money. W. A. McAdams, Super intendent, states that his patrons have been without electric current for a total elapsed time of less than nine minutes for the past 15 years. At present there is in the process of installation two Diesel engine units at an approximate cost of $100,000. "During the past three years, the town of Farmville has tried to co operate with President Roosevelt in his effort to keep people working on needed and useful projects. We paid nearly half the total cost of a beau tiful swimming pool, which is 60x 120 feet with bath house, complete. Visitors say it is one of the nicest (continued on page four)
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